Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 2 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 3 | Germany was to lose Alsace-Lorraine to France , and northern Schlesswig to Denmark . |
| 4 | Concluding a three-day visit to Vietnam on Feb. 1 , the US presidential envoy , Gen. John Vessey , announced that for the first time the USA was to provide assistance to typhoon victims . |
| 5 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 6 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 7 | ‘ I was driving Kelly to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London , ’ Sandra says , ‘ and out of the blue she said to me : ‘ Mum , what happens when you die ? |
| 8 | This time discipline won and Hughie Gallacher was transferred south to Chelsea . |
| 9 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 10 | The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front . |
| 11 | In 1976 Huan was made ambassador to Belgium and to the European Communities , and in 1979 became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . |
| 12 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 13 | The word ‘ mass ’ was no longer used , vestments were forbidden , and the communion table was positioned east to west rather than altarwise . |
| 14 | who was causing suffering to others . |
| 15 | Nicky , of Falkirk , West Lothian , said : ‘ It was adding insult to injury to see Des 's face on the record cover smiling up at me . ’ |
| 16 | Thousands of people in Qom on Jan. 5 demonstrated their opposition to the regime 's leading " moderate " dissident , Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri ( the designated spiritual successor to Ayatollah Khomeini until his resignation in March 1989 — see pp. 36538-39 ) , who had reportedly criticized government policies and claimed that Iran was selling oil to Israel . |
| 17 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 18 | Other Danuese , particularly the ex-FAKINTIL in the malai battalions , thought it was to help planes to home in more accurately . |
| 19 | She was wearing trousers to church ! |
| 20 | Vic Wilcox was dictating letters to Shirley when Brian Everthorpe knocked and put his head round the door , grinning , for some reason , from sideburn to sideburn . |
| 21 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 22 | Russia contended that Ukraine was exporting inflation to Russia when Ukrainian enterprises purchased Russian goods with credits issued by Ukraine , for although Russia had the monopoly on printing money , all former Soviet republics could issue credits to their industries . |
| 23 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 24 | That meeting began a partnership that was to give birth to Bandhavgargh , the first and finest national park in India . |
| 25 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 26 | She banged that drum when she came back , and was moving parents to centre stage while others were still thinking about what role they might have . |
| 27 | The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her . |
| 28 | Her question never got answered , for just then another couple with a dog appeared in the distance and Vendelin Gajdusek was calling Azor to heel so that he could leash him . |
| 29 | I guess at that point DEA assumed I had jumped the reservation and was feeding information to Pan Am . |
| 30 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |